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The English weekly newspaper, Los Angeles Star includes headings: [p.1]: [col. 3] "The Vesper bell", "About San Diego and some of the habits of the people, by One who was not long among them -- Extract", [col.4] "Literary items", "Curiosities of criticism"; [p.2]: [col.1] "Great excitement at San Francisco", "Fourth of July", [col.2] "The 'arrival' of the steamer", "From Kern River", "Heavy loss", "col.3] "To 'Civis'", [col.4] [Letter to the editor] "Mr. Editor", [col.5] "Constitution of the Committee of Vigilance, San Francisco", "The drowning of Dr. Dickerson and his daughter", "Monte diablo"; [p.3]: [col.1] "National Democratic convention", [Letter to the editor] "Mr. Editor", [col.2] "Filling up of the rivers"; [p.4]: [col.1] "Lyrics of the revolution. Mrs. Dr. Channing; or, The dove a lion. By Rev. Edward C. Jones", "Curiosities of the Census", [col.2] "A ball-room joke", "Professional etiquette", "Bare wine", [col.5] "Official directory", "The law of newspaper".

Can't Do Witliout a Paper.
What. do without a paper? no,
I've tried It to my sorrow,
So to subscribe For one I'll go.
Nor wait until to-morrow.
Should lovers drown or hang themselves,
Or other foolish caper,
I never gel to hear of it—
I do uot take the paper.
Why, there's my neighbor, Jolhara Stout,
He always has the news,
And having news *o talk about,
He never gets 'he blues,
"While others yawn in ennui,
His mind is light as vapor ;
The cause is plain to half an eye—
He always lakes a paper.
While neighbor Stoat has all ihe new.*.
And knows each current price,
Aud always minds his P's and Q'_,
By taking good advice—
1 cannot tell the price of calves,
Or poultry, eotl'ee, tape, or
Any kind oi" merchandise,
Because I take no paper.
Though. I have studies which require,
Much time rind mental labor,
Yet I can spare a little time,
As well as Stout, my neighbor ;
Though lime be precious, 1 can use
A longer midnight taper ;
And Urns take time to read the news—
Therefore IT! take tlie paper.
'No.
»
There's a word very short, but decided and plain.
And speaks to the purpose at once :
Not a child but its meaning can quickly explain,
Yet oil 'tis too hard to prononnce :
What a world of vexation and trouble 'twould
spare,
What pleasure and peace 'twould bestow,
If we turned wheu temptation would lure and ensnare,
And firmly repulsed it with "Not"
"When the idler would tempt us with trifles and
play,
To waste the bright moments so dear ;
"When the scnllcr unholy our faith would gainsay,
And mock at the word we revere ;
"When deception and falsehood and guile would
i A vile,
And Heeling enjoyments be.low,
Never palter with truth for a transient delight,
But check the first impulse with " No ln
In the morning of life, in maturity's day,
Whatever the cares that engage,
Be the precepts of virtue our guide and our stay,
Our eoiace from youth unto age!
Thus the heart shall ne'er waver, no matter how
tried,
But firmness nnd constancy show,
And when passion nnd lolly would draw us aside,
We'd spurn the seducer with "No!"
n_a-__» Sale,
BY TSIK CASK OK PACKAGI-,
In quantities to suit.
•KN-
C1L*
Noisy Ci
S7 Battery st
Suit jmasts l.Mxriis.iittnfs
CLOTHING WABEH0TJSE",
WM.~G." 15 AUGER
109 ZOf-tstox-y Street.
Comet or Merchant, " *-»
__3f__DEl ■OP_?S-_____a_S__iIJ
Import.
CLOTHING AND
—A1S
DUCI*
try -vim-!.-,-. __
FURNISHIKQ GOODS-
,1_0 or—
S, DRILLS, SHEETINGS. BLANKFTtj
HATS, BOOTS AND lll'OGAXS. '
By recent errlYals, have received very large invoice o(
Desirable Styles of Clothing
and it is (lie L.tllGEST STOCK ever offered in ttii, ,.
Ihe goods ar. manufactured under my own „„„,.''
„,„! ot ll,.-boat nmteri.l. .ell cot. Urge me, ,,,J '"'
intl,..,n„rld„r„l,li.„,a„uer. ' " ""•
TRADERS iron, ,he reentry are invited to exnmie.,, -
s_r;r_,'_iffi_:_;&
£^f^FFF^F:cFF^,l)F^rim^
Ol.DFKS FROM THK COUNTRY promptly and cartful!
attended lo. "
10,000 pairs assortesl Fancy Cass '
Li,.,''. ?*I1.L PA l-T.k, LEGAL CAP. *t_*T_E"r_ PAPER, INK,
BROAD BILL PAPER, FOOLSCAP. NOT:
BLANK BOOKS, WAFF-ItS, &< "
rriers l.oolt
...PAPER, !
nd Stat-on.-ry Co.,
___.n^,
Wholes,-,Is- 'Ffoihiajt WarchouK*.
-"- M-rsihitfl't, „an Francfi.o.
n>h2'_-S_n
at Retail.
The Byes! The Eyes !
____>:__•. _£__ _E_C. I*_AJFl_I_>3__-_E3*
OCULIST.
k ITER n protracted blindness, of more than _vey._r_
.'V Dr. Pardee ha., made himself thi. rouj-hlv aiui Kcienli'.
ii.s.tily aequinnled -.villi nil i)IB disorders 61' the Kl'E, >_'_
l.row p:-;i-lisin_; veitl- 11 n ivrrsi,'■ ...;c.:. ns the sarim t™» ..
l Wiuthif (nutIon.-
1 delicate an organ to
E ol'random exparimenti
3 and perilling cure
- never 1";
—The e.ye is by far too preciouu
is trilled wit* or made the Mib-
■e.oro. i_ would be f_.
iiif-eroiiN to accept any
at are tendered by the
......... ...-._.._.„,„, „„ „,.„,„„. for every one 6fier_ _
j eeifie tor diseases ot the eye.
f!£r Many patient s can be seen at the office of Dr. Par-;
ee. in dill'creiit stupes of recover*'.
OFFICI. -San Francisco, west ofthe Pl.-i_.-i. opposite tit,
■Id Post 0 lice, one door north ot th. Portsmouth Hon_.j
'P stsui-s. J_7—810
The Use of Money,—A vain man's motto-
Win gold and wear it. A generous man's—Win
gold and share it. A miser's—Win gold and
hoard it. A profligate's—Wi:/ gold and spend It.
A broker's—Wia gold and double it. A fool's—
Win gold and squander it. A gambler's—Win
gold and lose it. Asa'tlor's —Win gold and cruise
it. A wise man's—Win goldand use i_.
' -*---WC-~-».M ■- —
HUB CAUTIONED
makes social comfort. Allow people to be happy, gravitation and whizzed through the air, striking
their own way, and half the time they imagine) --**1 ground far, very far, beyond our utmost lim-
they have derived their happiness from their host's
or hostess's skill in entertaining them, which is
true, but not in the same sense Ihey take it. Insist upon providing amusement for everjbody
your own way, and you can freeze a hundred
people into icicles in an hour.
"its. We were indeed amazed, as we stood around,
all stripped to the buff, with shirr sleeves rolled
up, and having thought ourselves very clever
fellows, while the Colonel, ou retiring, pleasantly
observed, "When you beat my pitch, young gentlemen, I'll try again."
A Knowing Dog.—A shepherd once, to prove
the quickness of his dog, which was lying before
the fire in the house where we were talking, said
to me, in tho middle of a sentence, concerning
something else, "I'm thinking, sir, the cow is in
the potatoes." Though he purposely laid
stress on these words, and said them in a quiet,
unconcerned tone of voice, the dog, who appeared
to be asleep, immediately jumped up, and leaping
through the open window, scrambled up to th
turf roof of the home* from which he could see the
potatoe field. He then, not seeing the cow there,
ran and looked into the barn where she was, and
finding that all was right came back to the house.
After a short time the shepherd said the same
words again, and the dog repeated his look-out;
hut on the false alarm being a third time given,
the dog got up, and wagging his tail looked Lis
master in the face with eo comieal an expression
of interrogation, that ho could not help laughing
aloud at him, on which, with a slight growl, he
laid himself down in his warm corner, with an
offended air, as if determined not to be made a
fool of again.
Exposing the Parson.—A minister was, one
Sabbath day, examining the Sunday School in
catechism before the congregation. The usual
question was put to the first girl, a strapper who
usually assisted her father, who was a publican,
in waiting upon customers.
" What is your name ."
No reply.
" What is your name?" he repeated in a more
peremptory manner.
"None of your fun, Mr. Minister," said the girl.
'Yon know my name well enough. " Don't you
say when you come to our house, " Bet, bring me
some more ale 1"
The congregation, forgetting the saeredness of
the place, were in a broad grin, and the parson
looked daggerB.
_____.—Major Noah who was a close observer
and a connoisseur in these matters one. said:
That "a hazel eye inspired at first a Platonic
sentiment, which gradually but surely expands
into love as securely founded as tho Rock of Gibraltar. A woman with a hazel eye never elopes
from her husband.' never chats scandal, never
sacrifices her husband's comfort to her own. n_ver
finds fault, never talks too much or too little, al
ways ia an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable
and lovely creature." " We never knew," says a
brother editor "but one uninteresting and unami-
ble woman.with a hazel eye, and she has a nose
which looked, as the Yankee says, like the little
end of nothing whittled down to a point." The
grey is the sign of shrewdness and talent. Great
thinkers and captains have it. In women it indicates a better head than heart. The dark hazel
Is noble in ita insignificance, as in its beauty
The blue eye is amiable, but may be feeble. The
tolack—take care!
An Irish attorney, who died poor, was buried
by a shilling .ubscripiion. Some one asked Cur*
ran for his shilling. "For what?" he exclaimed,
" To bury an attorney." " Here, take this pound
no.e,(jand bury twenty of tbem at a shilling al Why are kind mothers like novel writers?
Iwafl* I A-ns.—Because they indulge infancy.
A Cnn/i.',_ Answer.—A father ouce said playfully to his youngest daughter, a child about five
years of age, " Mary, you are not good for anything."
"Yes I am, dear father," replied she, looking
thoughtfully and tenderly into his face.
" Why, what are you good for, pray tell me, my
dear?"
"I am good to love you, father," replied she,
at the same time throwing her tiny arm around
his neck, and giving him a kiss of unutterable
a lie eti on.
Blessed child! may your life ever be an expression of that early felt instinct of love. The
highest good you or any other mortal can possibly confer is, to live in the full exercise of afiec
tion,—Ladies' Chris. Annual.
_____._K)t_-H*_ Sarcasm.—One time a young man
attempted to make his acquaintance. He obtained an introduction, and among the first remarks said :
" I passed by your house a few days since, Mr.
Randolph."
M I hope you always will," was the reply.
Another once twitted him as to his "want of
education."
"The gentleman reminds mc," he replied, "ol
the lands about the head waters of Montgomery,
which are poor by nature, and cultivation has entirely ruined them!"
"My love,'-'said Boyle to his wife, "'why is a
Laplander like a umbrella maker? D'ye give it
up ? 'Cause he derives his support from the reindeer." "Try another," said our chief, as he threw
himself on the sofa on Saturday night. "Why is
your tired husband like an umbrella V "Because
he protects me ffom the elements, my love.'"
"Not a bit of it. darling, but because he is used
up."
" Quit spitting that nasty tobacker on the floor,
Josh, or I'll whip you!"
"La, mother, why don't you speak properly?
You should have said: Cease ejecting the offensive saliva of the Virginia weed upon the promenade, 01; I shall administer to you a severe oa.ti-
gation. Ahem!-'-'
Fox was one day expatiating to a company, in
which Sheridan whs pre.cut, on t-he impossibility
of paying off the National Debt. "Ia *fact," said
he, -'the creditors of the nation stand as little
chance of being paid as"—he paused for a stnino-
illustration; ere he could find oue, Sheridan sop-
plied it—"jour own."
A WoxDKRFur, I3RAIN.—An exchange tells us
that "Mrs. Par ton (Fanny Fern) brings to her
-dowry,, two daughters and S2o,()00, coined from
her fertile brain." This beats Jupiter hollow,
for his brain only sent forth one daughter. -Minerva, without auy dollars, while Funny's brain pro-
j duces two daughters and S25.000.
Lame Ark ange me xt.—Some time since a music-seller's boy was sent to the publisher's for a
number of copies ofthe song, ■'I'd be a Butterfly
arranged for two-trebles," when, on being desired
to repeat his order, he replied, " I'd be a Butterfly, arranged for two cripples."
VERY L_K_3.
The gay Flirttlla showed her mimic bus-,,
And ask'd bli.nt Senson if 'twere fashion'd just.
-.Uv-t.n bs replied- in this 'tis much lik. you
The face is painted, and tbat badly loo."
A woman quarrelling with her' husband, told
him she believed if she were dead he would marry
the devil's eldest daughter. " You mistake," he
replied, "the law does not allow a- man to marry
two sisters."
A Pragmatical young fellow sitting aft table
over against the learned John Scott, asked him
what difference there was between Scott and Sot!
" Just the breadth of the table, answered the other."
If wc did but know how little some enjoy the
good things that they possess, there would not be
much envy in the world,
A farmer flagellating two of his eldest boys,
was asked what he was doing. " Threshing wild
oats," was his reply.
What Is the difference between an auction and
sea-sickness ? One is the sale of effects, the other
the eflccts ofa sail.
"Tom,wbodid you say our friend B. married?"
"Well he married forty thousand dollars—I forgot her other name."
The difference between a suit of clothes and a
suit at law is this—one provides you with pockets
and the other empties them.
A magazine report of the fashions says:—
"There is not much change iu gentlemen's pantaloons this month."
BY DR. DOKKB.
I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
To stand or go. If he says true, he lies.
Unlilial wish of a medical student—"Oh, that
my father was seized with a,remittent fever."
When is a man shaved witb a silver razor?
When he cuts off his .eirs with a shilling.
I.'-nnl per
Bo-mi per
up with spr-inui. sis-,1 the [>..S1 __].„. .1 ],_i. „,-, t (-..._...-
jy malting this the best hunfiein the city.
I_otl&.Hg p._ n'l-ilv $%,_-,&,_, 00
_-_-_£_i-K per _r_g_tt 50c, 75, $1 00
jiigrFREG BATHS -_-*$
t Cheer House sends tothe Boats an expre*
the nai
; passengers, and li.-rCT^e Free I The nn
understood that all others net without n
It. B. WOODWARD, Propr
LosquePadezcan! Lean!! Lean!!!
EL GI.AN J..EMEDIO ITALIANO
DE DE. PAREIRA,
Para la cierta y eficaz cura de lus infe/me Jades
de una natural'eza prioada, sin hacer emo del
tiempo que sella durado y sinmalos efecios at
sistema o einponerse endieta.
,'uiica solia _T„lto_lo~S
| OFFICIAL DIHECTORY.
UNITE!) STATES 0FF1CFR.S.
| United States District Court for the Southern
District of California :
I. S. K. Ogier, Judge : P. Ord. _>.K-i'iIc fnlta a Cuv.tr.
I,a
por
_a_tade_ de
principales de Em-op,, fu&ron
■ inieer su aflomhro*. i poi.ler sobre enter
'•'■'' |,|.;*. •' ■* ;'• ", "htrios de otc-ts inedieina., eelosos d. mi
1'■■:;" "! '"'' ■ ■■■ into el segardor, sus __ftie___-_ i__*_ Carter,
OFFICE AND DRUG STORE,
I*OS ANGELES STREET,
Adjoining Keller's Store.
Xj- Orl£iSie___B7
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Groceries, Provisions, Wines, I_i-
quors, Dry Goods and Clothing,
MAIN STRBFT,—(old " Star Hotel" Bui-ding.)
LOS ANGELES.
ie above articles can
N. B.~A well selected stock ,
Iways be found at my store in
I,. GLASER,
O. ^VST. Cli.iXc_.__,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Also, Manufacturer of
Tin, Sheet Iron, and Copper Ware,
LOS ANGELES STREET,
un. Los Angeles.
P. C. WILLIAMS,
At the old stand of J. G. Nichols,
HI a in Strect,
—Dealer in—
Groceries, Provisions, and Prodnce.
un7
Chas. R. Johsbon. II. S. A1.I.ANSO.V.
JOHNSON & ALLANSON,
Successors to Alexander iC Melius.
Wholesale and Retail Dcrtlcr. In GENERAL
JIEUCHA-UISE,
MAIN STREET. I~os Angeles. un7
G. C. ALXXAKDKK. 1>. W. _4____-.D___, F____U8 BASKISO
ALEXANDERS & BANNING*,
For .varclliig and Comnilssloti Merchaiii..
SAN PEDRO and LOS ANGELES, Cal. nn7
AUG. W. TIM1S.
Forwnrding and Commission Ulcrcliaul,
San Pedro and LOS Angeles, Cat,.,
.7 II. REAP, Agent, T-os Angeles.
_El__a,lI>_l-L Emerson.
GIVES NOTICE to the Rancheros and Butchers of this
vicinity that he will give the highest price for-Tide.,
Calf, Sheep and Goat Skins, andfor Wool.
AS- Liberal advances made on contracts for the coming
clip of Wool.
Office—Aliso Street, one door from the corner
of Vineyard street^ ■"■"■
New Fruit & Vegetable Market.
T.1E undersigned having purchased the entire stock of
('i-.ieiii-ies mid Liquors of John- M.]K'..i.>i'i.h - All kinds of Country Produce taken In
_xeiii.iii.i-- . -».'-■_
;S__- Remember the place—Opposite Pine s Ho
teiMaui street, Los Angeles. ^^ ^
II. McLiiushliu & Brollier,
Blacksmiths.and Carriage Makers,
I^)S A1VGEI.ES STIIEET,
NEXT POOR TO O. W. CHILD'S STORE,
LOS ANGEt.ES.
__- By their works ye shall know them..__ «n7
C.. JSucommun,
WATCHMAKER & BOOKSELLER
COMMERCIAL STREET,
un7 Lus Axgei.e3, Cal.
Home .lam-factory, Main Street,
OPPOSITE TEMPLE'S BLOCK.
FOY & BROTHER,
Saddle and Harness Makers
Keep constantly on hand an assortment of
l_ADi__l__, HARNESS,
BRIDLES, WHIPS. COLLARS,
SADDLE WARE, ke.
e are also prepared to execute all kinds ol work in ou
at the shortest possible notice,
superior lot of California Bitts and Spurs always oi
The Vesper Hell.
Lo l tfie shade, of eve are stealing
Softly through the (froaminp air ;
List I the vesper bell i _ pealtng
Forth [ta wonted call to prayer.
Ave Maria! Ave Maria I
Hark I tha holy prayer doth rife.
Like iucense floating to the skies.
Now Hie light-winged zephyr's blowing
O'er the sleeping, t-tar-llt st-a,
Refreshing ct oIqssb round bestowing,
Fraught, the air with melody,
Ave Maria I Ave Maria!
Hark! the hymn of praise ascends,
'Til with angelic strains it "ouuda.
Now the night-cloud's sombre pull
Steal th alone the quaint carv .d wall ;
The tapered altar bsowb I.ut, dim :
Tliou'rt dying eway, sweat vesjier liymu,
Ave MaTla 1 Ave Maria!
Hark I how . weetly .trikes tbe ear,
The echos of that erfenlog inayer.
have been washed down, and all the vines aud
oilvo and other fruit trees, ure ruined hy neglect;
those noble enclosures now afford scanty pasturage
for Crafts' sheep and goats. The walls of the
church are cracked, aud it Is considered dangefous
to enter tbem. Tlte great corridor, some four
hundred feet in length, haa begun to decay—the
tiled roof has in many places fallen lu ; and it is
feared that tbe next season ot rains will destroy all
the present outside symmetry.
There are Beveral claimants to thia property,
tbe most prominent of whom ia the Bishop of California, aud V. E.Howard, who holds under a
mortgage from W.C. Jones. The valley ia fertile
and extends from the sea back to the mountains.
There is-plenty of good grass, susta ning at the
present time some 4000 bead of cattle MflOglog
to different persons.
Hardware Store.
THE subscribers having opened a store Tor
the sale of
HARDWARE,
, Jrespoctfully inform the inhabitants ol Las
Angeles and vicinity, that they are prepared to supply all
wants in tbeir line of business, at
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
at the m„s, reasonable prices.
Araontr their stock may be found a general assortment of
CARPENTERS' TOOLS.
NAILS OF ALL KINDS.
LOCKS. BOLTS, BOTTS AND SCREWS,
HOUSE' FURNISHINGS GENERALLY,
MASONS' TROWELS,
BUTCHER'S SAWS,CLEAVERS an.l KNIVES,
BRASS KETTLES, IRONS and SCREENS,
STEELYARDS ,mcl SPRING BALANCES,
OX TRACE aad COIL CHAINS,
ACh.ICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, etc., olo.
campheme""'s1de lamps,
(_L.s.s Lanterns,
O la O O __£ tS.
—ALSO—
50 dozen superior BROOMS.
Also, aiarge ana elegant assortment of
CROCKERY AND GLiSSWARE,
at wholes _corretail.
POTTER * Co.
^_-BmoK SToitri, Los Akoei.es Stbeet. tin?
Important to Farmers and Others
LOS ANGELES SEWING MACHINE,
BAGS FOR. SAJ___, or maae to ordky was his only means of publicity. The press is for the writer of the present day
what the high road was for Homer.
Sketches and Adventures in tue Andalusia.
of Spain.—Mr. Charles March in this very interesting work says:
In Paris, we find everything better than anywhere else—but little or nothing lo which we
have been unaccustomed. The difTeronce is not
one of kind, but degree. In Spain, on ihe contrary, everything strikes us ns fresh, original, pecu
liar. Besides the popular traditions and legends,
the novel manners, picturesque individuality, and
national cuslonis impress a stranger deeply. There
are spectacles and institutions, customs, and habits of life, different from all we had previously
seen or understood; these we must affect altera
while, and qtiit witb reluctance. Indeed I feel a
greater desire to reviBit tho Andalusias than any
country of which 1 have had experience, I liked
the people; I liked tbe bailes ; I liked the corridas de toros; I liked the olla podrida ; I liked
the insouciance, the devil-may-care sort of habits ;
I liked the majos, contrabandistas, and picaros
generally. Indeed I liked every thing but the
pulgas.
Living iu the Andalusias ib not d«ar. At the
best hotels the board is only seven and a half pe
setae—a dollar and a half; and this includes as
much tin ordinaire for your dinner as you wish.
The table Ib good and the cooking not indifferent.
Nothing could have prevailed upon me to leave
but the hope of a speedy return. In that hope I
A London correspondent of the Manchester
Advertiser writes that—
" Thomas Carlyle Is applying himself with vigor
to termincte his long promised biography of the
great Frederick, which he more than oaca has
abandoned or suspended. It will be published lu
four volumes nertChristmas. There Is some gossip afloat, too, about a new work by Charles Dickens, who, as you will have seen, has returned from
i's,[ is, nnd haa been mora than usually active of
late at literary and dramatic public meetings.
The origin of the talked of work ia an attack mada
upou the eminent novelist by Count Montalem-
bert, the celebrated French writer and politician,
who, in a recent | ublication, with more zeal thaa
knowledge, accused Sir. Dickens of having excited the poor against the rich in his social fictions;
iu fact, of being an English Eugene Sue. Dickens,
It is said, Intend, to publish a reply to tbe Count.
which \\ ill appear simultsuieouily in French and
English, in Paris and London."
Iu a memoir of Martini Ney, recently issued-
Loid Brougham, after defending Wellington from
the charge that has been brought against him, of
want uf generosjty in allowing the punishment
to be carried into effect, mentions a circumstance
which we do not recollect to have seen elaewhera
rao-itta. i—
"While Napoleon passed within range of en
English battery at Waterloo, and the officers wer«
about to lire at the group, he at ouce peremptorily foi'lrtile it. "This passage," he adds, •' in hla
illustrious and unstained life i_ worth a thousand
superfluous panegyrics, and put- to flight all Imputations npon him as wanting in thoso (tallage
which, in the company of more rare and Btera
qualities, arc ever found to adorn the character of
the greatest men.
Wealth. _____j__E__a ____> IIungkr.—A native of
Com-tantinople, named Tinconi, about fifty years
of age, was found dead in his lodgings, No. 7, Rua
dea Vieux Augustins, one morning last week, and
on examination it titnied out, extraordinary to relate, that he had literally died of hunger. Ha
was, it appeared, possessed of a good fortune, but
was so passionately addicted to learning that he
entirely neglected himself, and passed whole days
among his books and manuscripts without thinking of Inking food. His apartment was in a slata
of indescribable filth ; his person, was, if possible
still worse, as, for two years, he had changed neither his linen nor his clothes, aud he was dreadfully emaciated. His attainments were very great,
and he spoke not fewer than twelve languages
with facility, and knew others.
At one time, too, he held high official dignities
in his own country, aud was even au ambns-tador,
but be abandoned everything for study. Hislodg-'
ings were encui-bei-eil with piles of books and
manuscripts in almost every language ; aud, In
addition to tbem, he possessed a great number of
r»rc and ciiriou. objects, such as Eastern arms of
all kinds, Damascus blades, antiquities, autographs of celebrated personages, Ac. By his will
he leaves six mamir-cfipts, supposed to be extreme,
ly precious, to the Mazarine Library, and hia fortune partly to the poor, and partly to the church
des Pctits Peres.- -Oalignani's (Pa/is) Messenger, April 7.
Curiosities of Criticism.—A book might be
written upon the curiosities of criticism. In a
review of Mr. Lougfellow's "Hiawatha," in a aerial of character and long standing, it is made a
fatal objection against the poem that the Supremo
Being is represented a*s a "smoking pipe I" la
a recent number of the " Leisure Hour," Juliet's
suggestion about cutting up Romeo into little
stars ("Romeo and Juliet," act iii. Bcene 2,)
which is referred to by Emeison, is quoted as on a
of that great Auu'riean'**. unintelligible vagarien.
In another magazine, Gerald Massey was charged
tlie other day with stealing from E. B. Browning
the words. " The Lord had need ofher." (See
Luke xix. 3'_.) Iu the B-imo article the obvious
expression—" Strength and beauty hand in hand,"
must needs be traced to Shelley, as if it could not
be fouud iu a thousand other places, and aa if
it were not a perfectly natural phrase which anybody is at liberty to use.— Tait's Magazine.
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